User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to Live
 - First Steps
 - Authorizing Live
 - Live Concepts
 - Managing Files and Sets
- Working with the File Browsers
 - Sample Files
 - MIDI Files
 - Live Clips
 - Live Sets
 - Live Projects
 - The Live Library
 - Locating Missing Samples
 - Collecting External Samples
 - Aggregated Locating and Collecting
 - Finding Unused Samples
 - Packing Projects into Live Packs
 - File Management FAQs
- How Do I Create a Project?
 - How Can I Save Presets Into My Current Project?
 - Can I Work On Multiple Versions of a Set?
 - Where Should I Save My Live Sets?
 - Where Should I Save My Live Clips?
 - Can I Use My Own Folder Structure Within a Project Folder?
 - How Do I Export A Project to the Library and Maintain My Own Folder Structure?
 
 
 - Arrangement View
 - Session View
 - Clip View
 - Tempo Control and Warping
 - Editing MIDI Notes and Velocities
 - Using Grooves
 - Launching Clips
 - Routing and I/O
 - Mixing
 - Recording New Clips
 - Working with Instruments and Effects
 - Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks
 - Automation and Editing Envelopes
 - Clip Envelopes
 - Working with Video
 - Live Audio Effect Reference
- Auto Filter
 - Auto Pan
 - Beat Repeat
 - Chorus
 - Compressor
 - Corpus
 - Dynamic Tube
 - EQ Eight
 - EQ Three
 - Erosion
 - External Audio Effect
 - Filter Delay
 - Flanger
 - Frequency Shifter
 - Gate
 - Grain Delay
 - Limiter
 - Looper
 - Multiband Dynamics
 - Overdrive
 - Phaser
 - Ping Pong Delay
 - Redux
 - Resonators
 - Reverb
 - Saturator
 - Simple Delay
 - Spectrum
 - Utility
 - Vinyl Distortion
 - Vocoder
 
 - Live MIDI Effect Reference
 - Live Instrument Reference
 - Max For Live
 - Sharing Live Sets
 - MIDI and Key Remote Control
 - Using the APC40
 - Synchronization and ReWire
 - Computer Audio Resources and Strategies
 - Audio Fact Sheet
 - MIDI Fact Sheet
 - Live Keyboard Shortcuts
- Showing and Hiding Views
 - Accessing Menus
 - Adjusting Values
 - Browsing
 - Transport
 - Editing
 - Loop Brace and Start/End Markers
 - Session View Commands
 - Arrangement View Commands
 - Commands for Tracks
 - Commands for Breakpoint Envelopes
 - Key/MIDI Map Mode and the Computer MIDI Keyboard
 - Zooming, Display and Selections
 - Clip View Sample Display
 - Clip View MIDI Editor
 - Grid Snapping and Drawing
 - Global Quantization
 - Working with Sets and the Program
 - Working with Plug-Ins and Devices
 - Using the Context Menu
 
 - Index
 
CHAPTER 18. AUTOMATION AND EDITING ENVELOPES 253
2. You can click on it to reactivate all automation and thereby return to the automa-
tion state as it is written on tape.
18.4 Drawing and Editing Automation
In the Arrangement View, automation curves can be viewed and edited as breakpoint
envelopes.
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Automation Envelopes
in the Arrangement
View.
1. To show a track's envelopes, unfold the track by clicking the button next
to the track name. (Note that, for Group Tracks, you may need to expand the
track's height in order to see its envelopes.)
2. Clicking on one of the track's mixer or device controls will display this control's
envelope on the clip track.
3. Envelopes appear on top of the audio waveform or MIDI display. An enve-
lope's vertical axis represents the control value and the horizontal axis represents
time. For switches and radio buttons, the value axis is discontinuous.
4. The Fades/Device chooser either selects audio clip fades, the track mixer, one










